On 06.11.2017 17:14, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > On 06/11/2017 17:01, David Hildenbrand wrote: >> On 06.11.2017 16:10, Nick Desaulniers wrote: >>> Does it have to be stack allocated? >> >> We can't use kmalloc and friends in emulate.c. We would have to >> introduce new emulator callbacks. >> >> a) for malloc and free. hmmm. >> b) for carrying out the fxrstr/fixup. >> >> Paolo, what do you suggest? > > You can use kmalloc. Any userspace user of emulate.c would have to > write a wrapper. But I'm not sure it's useful... maybe the > asm_safe+memcpy could be moved to a separate noinline function, so that > segmented_read_std is invoked with a leaner stack. That's basically what we had before 9d643f63128b, however without the "noinline". -- Thanks, David / dhildenb